Starting a fire with a lighter is easy, right? How about matches? For many people, yeah. What about a battery? Well, if you have steel wool, you may be in luck. Watch how easy it can be below.
Yep, it's that easy. And while this trick works easiest with a 9V battery, due to both positive and negative being on the same side, it will actually work just as effectively with any other type of battery. Just find a way to connect both poles and touch them to the steel wool. Some wires should do the trick in a pinch.
All you're doing is creating a short in the battery, which ignites the spark. This just goes to show that, as long as you're able to keep a clear head and mentally go through all the possibilities with the gear at your disposal, there will always be a chance of survival.
This works. You just have to be ready when you go to light it. Don’t mess around ’cause it can go quickly.
Old prison trick lol
Store separately. Be careful.
I have bic lighters in my BOB
Guys…seriously…this click bait type of intro is kinda stupid… “she takes a battery and some steel wool…what she does next will have you shitting your pants with excitement and$#%&!@*in your pants…” Yes, we knew you can arc some sparky things with a 9V and steel wool… We got it…kthanx…
The things you learn in jail might just save your life. Whowouldathunkit.
Yeah, you just happen to have steel wool and a 9 volt battery when your stranded.
I learned that back in the 70’s, and how to cook bacon and eggs in a paper bag.
Ya, because i am going to stock my supplies with steel wool & 9v batteries instead of packing lighters, matches, magnesium block, flint & steel……
Why would I be astonished by this? I learned that$#%&!@*when I was 8……………
Jeremy Risk. Very helpful …..
You can knead in chapstick and light the cotton balls in the wet with any spark I use it all the time to light the hibachi at home.
I knew about this 1000 years sgo